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| 00.01 | Welcome to the spoken tutorial on “LaTeX on Windows using TeXworks” |
| 00.07 | In this tutorial we will learn to, |
| 00.09 | Download and install MikTeX |
| 00.11 | Write basic LaTeX documents using TeXworks |
| 00.15 | Configure MikTeX to download missing packages |
| 00.19 | To record this tutorial, I am using Windows7 operating system and MikTeX2.9 |
| 00.27 | Let us now see the salient features of TeXworks |
| 00.31 | It is platform independent |
| 00.33 | It has an embedded pdf reader |
| 00.36 | It supports Indian language typesetting
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| 00.39 | Before we start with TeXworks, we have to install MikTeX. |
| 00.44 | MikTeX is an up-to-date implementation of TeX or LaTeX and related programs for Windows. |
| 00.52 | It contains the necessary packages to create basic documents in LaTeX on Windows |
| 00.58 | Moreover, TeXworks is a default editor available with MikTeX installation.
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| 01.04 | Go to the website www.miktex.org |
| 01.10 | Click on the download link for recommended MikTeX installer.
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| 01.15 | This will download the MikTeX installer.
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| 01.18 | Download and save it on your Desktop. |
| 01.22 | It is a large file, about 154 mega bytes.
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| 01.25 | Hence, it will take some time to download. |
| 01.27 | I have already downloaded this file. Here it is. |
| 01.32 | Double click on this file to start the installation.
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| 01.36 | Check the check box and click on Next. |
| 01.40 | Choose all default options. |
| 01.43 | The installation will take around 5 to 10 minutes. |
| 01.47 | I have already installed MikTeX on my computer. |
| 01.50 | Hence I will not proceed with the installation.
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| 01.54 | After successfully installing MikTeX on your computer, |
| 01.58 | let us see how to use the TeXworks editor which comes with MikTeX.
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| 02.03 | Click on the Windows start button. |
| 02.07 | Click on All Programs. |
| 02.09 | Click on MikTeX2.9
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| 02.12 | Click on TeXworks
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| 02.15 | TeXworks editor will open. |
| 02.18 | Let me open an already existing LaTeX document.
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| 02.21 | I will click on File, then click on Open and choose the directory. |
| 02.28 | Then I will open the file hello.tex.
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| 02.32 | You can see that the text written in this file is colored. |
| 02.37 | This is called syntax highlighting.
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| 02.41 | It helps the user differentiate between the user content and the LaTeX syntax.
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| 02.47 | In case the LaTeX syntax is not highlighted, do the following. |
| 02.52 | In the TeXworks window, click on Format button available on the Menu bar. |
| 02.58 | Select Syntax Colouring and then click on LaTeX. |
| 03.03 | If you want TeXworks to apply syntax highlighting every time you create a LaTeX document, do the following |
| 03.10 | On the menu bar, click on Edit ,then click on Preferences. |
| 03.16 | In the Editor tab, click on the dropdown button which gives options for Syntax Colouring. |
| 03.22 | Choose LaTeX and then click on Ok. |
| 03.26 | In this way, syntax highlighting will be applied to all documents created in the future. |
| 03.32 | Now we are ready to compile our LaTeX document. |
| 03.36 | Press Ctrl and t keys together to start the compilation. |
| 03.42 | Once the document is compiled without errors, the resulting pdf will be opened. |
| 03.49 | Note that this pdf reader comes along with TeXworks. |
| 03.53 | It is the default pdf reader used by TeXworks to display the compiled pdf document. |
| 03.59 | Now let us compile a Beamer document. |
| 04.02 | Beamer package by default is not included in the MikTeX setup that we have installed. |
| 04.08 | This means that we have to
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| 04.10 | download it from some source and add it to our current MikTeX distribution
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| 04.15 | There are two ways of installing a missing package. |
| 04.19 | One way is to install it on the fly while we are compiling a LaTeX document
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| 04.24 | This LaTeX document will typically require a package not available in your MikTeX distribution. |
| 04.31 | Other way, is to manually choose and install a package using Package Manager of MikTeX. |
| 04.37 | Let us see the first method. |
| 04.40 | We will open and compile a LaTeX document, which requires MikTeX to install packages from the internet.
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| 04.47 | First close the TeXworks editor. |
| 04.51 | It is required that we open the tex file with administrator privileges. |
| 04.56 | Click on the start button.
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| 04.59 | Then click on All programs. |
| 05.02 | Click on MikTeX2.9 |
| 05.05 | Right click on TeXworks and choose Run as Administrator |
| 05.11 | This will launch the TeXworks editor with administrator privileges. |
| 05.16 | Now click on File. |
| 05.19 | Then click on Open |
| 05.21 | Choose the file beamer.tex |
| 05.24 | Press Ctrl and t keys together to start the compilation. |
| 05.29 | A Package Installation dialog box will open. |
| 05.33 | It will ask to install the missing package beamer.cls. |
| 05.38 | Click on Change button on this dialog box. |
| 05.43 | Change Package Repository dialog box will open. |
| 05.47 | Choose the option Packages shall be installed from the internet. |
| 05.52 | Click on Connection Settings.
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| 05.55 | It will prompt you to configure the proxy settings. |
| 05.59 | If you are not on a proxy network then leave the Use proxy server checkbox unchecked. |
| 06.06 | Since i am on a proxy network, i will enable the option by clicking on the checkbox |
| 06.12 | I will enter the proxy address. |
| 06.16 | I will enter proxy port number. |
| 06.19 | I will enable the option Authentication required by clicking on the corresponding checkbox |
| 06.25 | Click on Ok. And then click on Next |
| 06.30 | It will ask me the proxy username and password. |
| 06.34 | I will enter the information and click on OK. |
| 06.39 | It will show a list of various remote package repositories. |
| 06.44 | Choose one from the list and click on Finish. |
| 06.48 | Click on Install.
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| 06.51 | It will install the beamer.cls package
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| 06.55 | Once again the Package Installation dialog box will open. |
| 07.00 | It will prompt to install the missing package pgfcore.sty.
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| 07.06 | You may uncheck the option Always show this dialog before installing packages. |
| 07.12 | If you do this, MikTeX will not prompt you again, if it encounters a missing package. |
| 07.19 | Click on Install.
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| 07.21 | Now if there are any more missing packages, it will automatically install it, without asking for your permission. |
| 07.31 | Once the installation completes, it will finish the compilation and open the pdf output. |
| 07.38 | We can see that we have successfully compiled a Beamer document. |
| 07.42 | Now let us see the second method of installing missing packages.
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| 07.47 | Click on the Windows start button.
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| 07.50 | Click on All Programs.
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| 07.53 | Click on MikTeX2.9
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| 07.55 | Click on Maintenance (Admin) |
| 07.58 | Cick on Package Manager (Admin) |
| 08.02 | It will show a list of various packages available |
| 08.07 | Now let us take a look at this list.
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| 08.10 | There are six columns in this list. |
| 08.13 | These are Name, Category, Size, Packaged date, Installed on date and Title. |
| 08.21 | The Installed on column is very important to us. |
| 08.25 | The packages for which this column is blank indicates that these packages are not installed. |
| 08.32 | Let us see how to install a particular package. |
| 08.36 | Let me choose the package abc, for example. |
| 08.41 | Notice that the moment I choose the package, the plus button on the top left side gets enabled.
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| 08.48 | The plus button is the install button. |
| 08.51 | Click on the plus button. |
| 08.53 | A window will open which will list the number of packages you have chosen to install or uninstall. |
| 09.00 | Click on Proceed. |
| 09.04 | Since I have configured a proxy network connection, it will prompt me for the proxy username and password. |
| 09.11 | Let me type my username and password |
| 09.14 | Click on Ok |
| 09.16 | A window will open which will show the download progress of the package selected for installation.
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| 09.23 | It may happen that it fails to download the requested package due to remote server connectivity issues. |
| 09.29 | In that case, change the package repository and try again.
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| 09.34 | We can see that the installation of selected package is completed. |
| 09.39 | Click on Close.
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| 09.41 | The package list will get refreshed. |
| 09.44 | Notice that 11 september 2013 appears in the Installed on column for package abc. |
| 09.52 | This completes the tutorial LaTeX on Windows using TeXworks |
| 09.58 | In this tutorial we learnt to - |
| 10.00 | Download and install MikTeX |
| 10.02 | Write basic LaTeX document using TeXworks |
| 10.06 | Configure MikTeX to download missing packages in 2 different ways |
| 10.11 | Watch the video available at the following link. |
| 10.14 | It summarizes the Spoken Tutorial project |
| 10.17 | If you do not have good bandwidth, you can download and watch it. |
| 10.21 | The Spoken Tutorial Project Team |
| 10.23 | Conducts workshops using spoken tutorials
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| 10.27 | Gives certificates to those who pass on online test . |
| 10.30 | For more details, please write to contact@spoken-tutorial.org
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| 10.36 | Spoken Tutorial Project is a part of the Talk to a Teacher project |
| 10.40 | It is supported by the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Government of India. |
| 10.48 | More information on this mission is available at, http://spoken-tutorial.org /NMEICT-Intro |
| 10.59 | This is Rupak Rokade from IIT Bombay signing off. Thanks for watching. |
